#ofmd fic

[victoriada]

this fanfic shit is easy

[meanbihexual]

Just found these metal pocket squares and they're SO Ed and Stede coded

They're at some fancy party and can't believe someone else is wearing the same weird accessory and before long they've traded their sea creatures and phone numbers but the latter doesn't matter because they end up going home together anyway and that's that

[nemoentwhistle]

Things I see over and over in ofmd fics that ring very true to me, because they just feel right, but I haven't analyzed why very closely, so I provide the basics here. They seem to feel very right to others, probably for reasons that would be obvious if I thought about it more, and if you read this list and say "duh, bitch" then I respect that.

1. Soft dom Stede Bonnet. Captain Voice, "stand down", "on ya feet!", "you were gonna burn my face off, remember?", "what'd you do with him?"

2. Modern AU Ed Teach loves Prince. It's in a number of fics. Probably because Prince was fucking amazing (what a loss) and talented and beautiful and masc and femme and told gender to fuck off way back to the 70s and never apologized for it and was still a sex symbol. Also, purple.

3. Bear with me ... Modern AU Izzy Hands is still a dick but less so, due to different societal trappings (and perhaps has more potential to realistically redeem himself without dying). The only way he can be the same level of dick in a modern AU is if they're running a criminal enterprise, something that comes parallel to the pirate thing. Otherwise, he's usually just an angry bureaucrat who's obsessed with Ed. Just without the pirate part.

4. Olu and Jim are in love in every universe, anchors for each other.

5. Modern AU Archie is either a new employee of Ed's or is one of his oldest friends. I like both. Because Archie is so funny and odd, but I think her chaotic personality works with Ed's love of whimsy. Side note, mostly unrelated... I noticed that people make up all kinds of shit about what Archie is short for... Madeleine Sami has Indian ancestry, and Archie is a common nickname for the Indian name Archana, so in my head, that's her full given name.

6. Stede is closer to Alma than to Louis. Makes sense. She's older, and she's sharp like Mary but maybe enough like Stede for him to feel that. She was hurt when he left. Louis was maybe too young to be.

7. Frenchie and Wee John are platonic partners. Like many, I read Frenchie as aroace. But I like them together. They have a similar level of disinterest that isn't really disinterest. They're room people now.

8. Lucius loves Fang. It's not really canon (?), but it makes perfect sense. He did draw him. Fang did develop affection for him. Lucius does like older men (Pete is old enough to be his father).

Things I don't really like to see but are common:

1. Helpless Ed. Ed is sensitive and soft, but he's extremely competent and also resilient. I think that gets lost sometimes when people are trying to write his emotional journey.

2. Extremely low self esteem Stede. Stede is definitely hard on himself, but he's also a bit high on his own supply. There's a nuance there that creates a tough balance to strike. He's not cocky, but he's also not a quivering little mouse man. He fakes it till he makes it. He's also a wealthy white man in the 18th century. Even if he was bullied, he's still used to people doing what he says.

3. Calico Jack and the Badmintons as one-note villains. They're used as stand-ins, I think, when a villain is needed. Canonically, Jack is boorish and mean to Stede, but it's calculated. It's a fuckery, if you will. Nigel B was played as genuinely believing he and Stede were friends, as twisted as that may be. Chauncey B had lost his twin and gone a little mad. They had reasons for their behavior. Sometimes they're written as just being wankers because the plot needs wankers.

6. Izzy and Ed grew up together. Forgetting that they're ten years apart and from different parts of the world, their relationship reads very "we met at work" to me.

Why did I write this? I don't know.

[bizarrelittlemew]

PROUDLY PRESENTING:

The Unofficial OFMD AO3 Wrapped 2024

sponsored by my love of fandom community, a passion for data presentation, more hours in photoshop than I am willing to admit, and inspired by the Good Omens AO3 wrapped

images used are either official stills or screencaps from episodes and the Vanity Fair lie detector video. everything edited by me :)

a few additional stats:

79 works had more than 100k words, with an accumulated 16 million words, meaning 1% of works accounted for 21% of words

At a reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take 174 days and nights to read all of the OFMD fic from 2024 - or, if you read for 11.5 hours every day for a year, you'd be able to get through it all!

The most tagged sex acts for explicit fics were (in order): Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, and Hand Jobs

271 works were tagged "Art"

details about data collection and analysis ⤵️

All data was collected on January 1st, 2025. I limited search results within the fandom tag to works updated between 2024-01-01 and 2024-12-31. Works started earlier but updated in 2024 are therefore included. Works added and deleted again during the year are not accounted for.

I manually typed data from the AO3 search into Excel, so there may be errors and inaccuracies due to the limits of the AO3 search function, authors' tagging choices, and typos (sorry lmao). There is probably an easier way to do this but idk I was bored and didn't mind. Graphs were made in Excel.

For the total word count estimate, I collected the exact word counts of all works above 100k, then gathered data on the number of works within pre-selected word count intervals and multiplied the number of works with the average of the interval (for each interval). The total sum and cumulative graphs for both number of works and word counts are presented above.

I made posts on tumblr and bluesky asking people to nominate their favorite tags from 2024, and included as many as I could.

This is just how I chose to present the data - I hope it makes sense and I'm open to questions!

[merryfinches]

I’m delighted about this lovely collab I did with my dearest Ida, who a made a beautiful story out of this art 🥰

Go and read It’s Late by @bizarrelittlemew here!

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

down to the sound of a heartbeat

by chaotic_neutral_knitter (5610 words) Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Era, Canon Compliant, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Loves Stede Bonnet, Stede Bonnet Loves Blackbeard | Edward Teach, POV Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Post-Season/Series 02, Grief/Mourning, Past Suicide Attempts, Guilt, Izzy is dead but they do talk about him a lot, Ed believes some really bad stuff about himself, Author (and stede) do not believe that stuff about him, Hugging, so much hugging when are they not hugging, going on a stupid little walk for your stupid mental health, Trauma, Talking About Feelings, Nightmares Summary:

"I should have been there with you," Stede said, voice rough. "If I hadn't left—" "Stede," Ed said, frustrated. He wiggled backwards out of Stede's arms and held his face in his hands, so that Stede couldn't look away. "It wasn't you leaving that did it. Stop thinking it was your fault." "Okay," Stede said, clearly agreeing because he felt like he had to, and not because he actually agreed. "Actually," Ed said, shaking Stede's head slightly for emphasis. "I was getting over you. I did some really excellent wallowing. I ate all of your marmalade, and I drank almost all of your brandy." That got him a laugh. "That's so much marmalade," Stede said. After everything settles down, Ed and Stede finally start to talk about it.

[ofmd-ann]

Fic writers deserve the world ✨💕

[five-very-happy-years]

For her 14th birthday Alma asks to dye her hair.

Ed drives her to the appointment at the salon.

Alma comes home with bright bubblegum pink hair as expected. Less expected are the matching pink strands framing Ed’s face.

For 15 they choose blue, 16 is purple, for 17 they go green, 18 is red.

At 19, when Alma’s away at college, they facetime as she applies a box of orange dye in the dorm bathroom while Stede carefully paints dye into Ed’s slut strands in the middle of their kitchen.

Before they wrap up the call Ed takes the brush and gives Stede a little streak of orange too.

~This idea brought to you by the beautiful transfem person with long pink hair I saw on the subway last night 💖~